I am very lucky to live in one of the 1930’s council properties (not on my own). Big place, well built, huge garden. When I shuffle off this mortal coil I know the Housing Association, as it now is, will knock it down and put five tiny properties on this one site.
Where is this based? Most of the council properties I’ve seen have damp, dated aesthetics and are more often than not slim terrace houses with a tiny courtyard in lower socio-economic areas.
Source: Volunteer with my local disability group, and we help people furnish and install things into their home
I live in a 1930s semi more like the one on the left of this photo.
Mine was owned from new by the one woman whose husband died in the 50s and we bought it from her estate in the 90s.
Only had the one child so it has served us well. Great house, great garden, great neighbours, round the corner from family. Only good things to say about it
The house I live in was built in the mid 50s, but the foundations were dug out just before the start of WW2.
Half of my town was a p.o.w. camp. They used a newly built housing estate that was fenced in… and then when the war ended the houses were sold off on the cheap.
I hate the British fear of large windows. Window sizes seem to still be on par with the times of window tax.
I know it’s mostly down to building to a budget and efficiency ratings but that last house with its tiny windows would cost around £180-200k to build, it would sell where I live for £500k+, so greed is the reason for small windows.
Never seen a council house the size of the 80s one before.
I grew up in two council houses that had been built on an old gravel pit. The first one now has, I believe, a pole holding up the ceiling, and most of the houses on the small estate have cracks monitored.
Council houses do tend to have larger gardens though.
The 1980’s one is NOT a council house. At that time, council house building hit an all time low. Your typical council property was more likely to be a flat.
Also, council homes were rare in the 1930’s, so that would have been built as a private home, not a council house.
I’d be surprised if any of the ones from the 80s onwards were ever council houses.
I live in St Helier in South London which was built by the London County Council in the 20s and 30s.. the houses look more like the 1950s example here.. these days it’s about 50% privately owned and a bit of a hodge-podge of extensions and pebble dash but it’s generally a nice enough place with lots of green space and pretty much one of the cheapest areas you can get a family home with a garden in London. Build quality seems really good considering the age and some of the problems I’ve heard about with newbuilds…
most of these images are not publicly built housing/council housing. To get a better sense of how social housing has evolved you should look at [https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com](https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com) compiled by a professional historian of social housing.
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I am very lucky to live in one of the 1930’s council properties (not on my own). Big place, well built, huge garden. When I shuffle off this mortal coil I know the Housing Association, as it now is, will knock it down and put five tiny properties on this one site.
Where is this based? Most of the council properties I’ve seen have damp, dated aesthetics and are more often than not slim terrace houses with a tiny courtyard in lower socio-economic areas.
Source: Volunteer with my local disability group, and we help people furnish and install things into their home
I live in a 1930s semi more like the one on the left of this photo.
Mine was owned from new by the one woman whose husband died in the 50s and we bought it from her estate in the 90s.
Only had the one child so it has served us well. Great house, great garden, great neighbours, round the corner from family. Only good things to say about it
The house I live in was built in the mid 50s, but the foundations were dug out just before the start of WW2.
Half of my town was a p.o.w. camp. They used a newly built housing estate that was fenced in… and then when the war ended the houses were sold off on the cheap.
I hate the British fear of large windows. Window sizes seem to still be on par with the times of window tax.
I know it’s mostly down to building to a budget and efficiency ratings but that last house with its tiny windows would cost around £180-200k to build, it would sell where I live for £500k+, so greed is the reason for small windows.
Never seen a council house the size of the 80s one before.
I grew up in two council houses that had been built on an old gravel pit. The first one now has, I believe, a pole holding up the ceiling, and most of the houses on the small estate have cracks monitored.
Council houses do tend to have larger gardens though.
The 1980’s one is NOT a council house. At that time, council house building hit an all time low. Your typical council property was more likely to be a flat.
Also, council homes were rare in the 1930’s, so that would have been built as a private home, not a council house.
I’d be surprised if any of the ones from the 80s onwards were ever council houses.
The 2020s one is a [private £310k new build](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154404971#/?channel=RES_NEW) for example.
I live in St Helier in South London which was built by the London County Council in the 20s and 30s.. the houses look more like the 1950s example here.. these days it’s about 50% privately owned and a bit of a hodge-podge of extensions and pebble dash but it’s generally a nice enough place with lots of green space and pretty much one of the cheapest areas you can get a family home with a garden in London. Build quality seems really good considering the age and some of the problems I’ve heard about with newbuilds…
most of these images are not publicly built housing/council housing. To get a better sense of how social housing has evolved you should look at [https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com](https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com) compiled by a professional historian of social housing.
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